skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy to blame the decline of organized religion, but it curiously coincides with the same time-frame in which the car was invented and modern suburbia sprung up. Having to move to allow for a family is definitely a new and worrying phenomenon.

My gut feel is that having to maintain close family ties and living with parents until adulthood are an adaption to poverty, poor social mobility, and low trust society. People will rationalize it but given opportunity they'll act in the exact same way as the rest of us (just look at urbanization in China).

Thanks for the article, wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if the loneliness epidemic is a statistical artifact of bad data.
It can be. There’s no copyright infringement here.
Data please.

The default is that people don't fucking care. Especially tourists. MBS can organize music festivals every week and people would go if it's not too expensive. Qatar hosted the world cup in 2022, and guess who was picked just recently to host the cup in 2034. Yes, Saudi Arabia.

Just this year, historic milestone. Yeey. :|

https://www.unwto.org/news/un-tourism-applauds-saudi-arabia-...
I was curious about this as perhaps a new approach to recipe-oriented bytecode injection. But the I looked at the project's (long) history and docs status.
It seems that the main contributor has tapered off this project over time, and more specifically hasn't been active since July. (Mumfrey, if you're out there, please tell us what's up)

So, OP, what made you mention this here now?
Wikipedia: List of Citogenesis Incidents
Cutting cables and having spy equipment onboard doesn’t really make it Russophobic though? It’s fact.

Similarily, spoofing gps from Kaliningrad such that boats routinely end up in fields isn’t being offensive, it’s once again showing that Russia is messing with critical infrastructure. https://bsky.app/profile/auonsson.bsky.social/post/3lecxmzbz...

One can state damning facts without being offensive to a people. This is such a case.
A reminder that the US president PLEDGED to end Nord stream 2 if Russia invades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWUuhNd37WI

Additionally, the only ones to gain from such an action would be US & Ukraine.

An action that risked the livelihood of millions of supposed "allies". Germany would be in shambles if the winter of 22-23 wasn't as mild as it was.
Ok so maybe it wasn't a sabotage but a botched attempt to install surveillance equipment on the cables? Or else why would it carry all these evidence
To get them to train an AI to replace them?
100% of Latin Americans you see are migrants because, well, you are in the US. You are only seeing exceptions.

The immense majority of Latin American don’t live in the US neither migrate there.
I can find similar on aliexpress. Although there are two types, the plastic ones which are about this price, and the crystal ones which are more like the price of the OP.
As it should be. We need to act like we are dealing with a country at war with us by proxy.
Also a package manager - Rust's is excellent and a huge reason to use it over C/C++. I see Ada has Alire but that seems like a fairly recent development and I don't know how it compares.
Is the exact positions public info or is it just crude positions? BTW, if the exact cable positions is public info, where is it available?
counter-drones for 650km/h drones (taking V-1 as an example) is basically supersonic air defense missiles, much more costly and complicated and take more time and resources to build (and requires radars/launchers/etc. in addition to the missiles - all that is cost and complexity and there is very limited production capacity for that hardware). And to cover even just European part of Russia isn't really possible with short-range ones. So, you need something fast and long-range and being able to hit moving target in the air. And even if short rage were enough - I don't see Pantsir missile price, and the TOR missile is $800K. S-300 is much north of it. So even if all your drones, say 20K drones, which cost you $100M, were to be shot down just by TOR/Pantsir, your enemy is out at least, bare minimum, $10B - and to build all these missiles significant portion of military production capacity should be dedicated to it (basically no way to build 20K such missiles in a year, and also hitting each target 100% by one missile is not real).

If you look at the map you'll see a strategic problem of Russia waiting to be exploited (and no plausibly possible factory building would help to prevent it) - when moving from the Ukraine/Russia border the Russian territory becomes more and more vast, and there is no good way to defend it from mass cheap attacks.
Interesting i never thought of ASCII to be a table of tables I'll have another look into the ASCII table number sequences to better understand it. This thread is really full of gold nuggets.
Show HN: Recursively detects and decodes multiple formats in nested data
I built an auto-decoder library that can:

1. Automatically detect and decode various formats (URL, Base64, JWT, QueryString, etc.)
2. Recursively parse nested encodings (e.g. URL with Base64 parameters containing JSON)
3. Handle ambiguous inputs by providing multiple decode possibilities with confidence scores
4. Preserve the decode path for nested structures

For example, it can parse:
- URLs containing Base64-encoded JSON parameters
- Query strings with JWT tokens that contain nested Base64 values
- JSON objects with multiple encoded fields
> Europe clings to the hope that the rules-based international order that—at this point—everyone is abandoning, can be resuscitated through hopes and prayers.

Appeasement is what Europe does when an aggressor comes knocking.
Definitely not surprising. The quality of Netflix originals is on a decline for years. I see this label as a warning nowadays.
There are enough good quality movies and shows. My life is too short to spend it with mediocre entertainment that leaves no lasting impression or thoughts. I don't need to pass time I want to make most out of it.
Funnily enough, logical deductions or formal theorem proofs can be seen as a set of transformative steps from the initial premises to the conclusion, where no new information is added in the process. Which makes the conclusion (at a stretch) a bit like "just" rephrasing the initial premises.
If we are talking about you reap what you sow ... I think Germany is a sovereign country that is free to choose its own economic partners without judgement from third parties. Ukraine on the other hand signed a bunch of agreements upon its independence that it would never join NATO but started making moves to NATO membership anyway long before this war. Then there was the Minsk agreements that are now openly regarded as 'signed to buy time'. Seems like Ukraine does not take its own signatures very seriously
Personally it helps me sleep having "TV" playing in the background. But my SO uses it while she works, having something to break the monotony as music is distracting.
> EU just watched

A lot of us in the US don't subscribe to the idea of "either you're with us or against us". I don't expect every single country in the world to drop everything they are doing and rush to help us invade whatever country we want to invade. I think it is ridiculous to say the EU is not with us because they don't blindly follow us everywhere.

In hindsight, it was a bad idea to invade Iraq anyway.
There's a maintained fork here: https://github.com/FabricMC/Mixin
I am guilty of this, I usually talk about my time as an entrepreneur negatively because, to be frank, I'm ashamed of my failure. Thanks for the insight, it's helpful and I should have thought more about this earlier.
IMHO posts like this one are too much, but when you do it like that[0] instead then it's OK to me.

For the record I vouched for your post above anyway, but if you keep doing that you'll likely get shadow-banned for spam so I think you really shouldn't be too heavy handed on self-promotion.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42504991
That article has a lot of quality but it also has a lot of telling the history of Netflix. Of the eight sections, I'd only really recommend the first plus a paragraph, then 6-8, maybe 5-8.

I wouldn't call the OP clickbait, it's a reasonable title for the focus of the article. And I appreciate it having focus.
> The production of truth in an industrialized fashion is boring.

Chess is a game, if it gets boring that defeats the point…. Math on the other hand is basic science research, and enables us to understand how the universe and our bodies work, to massive benefit. I don’t care how “boring” it is, the knowledge could have immense value or be critical for our survival and if AI can allow us to access it, all the better.
The most popular way to transfer money between friends in Poland is a BLIK-to-phone-number transfer. Those transfers are done from the banking app. I don’t need to know someone’s account number, I just need their phone number. BLIK transfers are instant, unlike regular bank transfers, which may take up to 1 business day (specifically, they are done via batch processing 3 times in a business day), and they are always free, unlike instant bank transfers (though that depends on your bank/account type).
"All abstractions are leaky, but some are useful" - me.

In fact, my own framework for small LoB webapps is based entirely around this premise.
Some that I've enjoyed recently (or rewatched):

Good One (2024) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30319516/

Strange Darling (2023) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22375054/

The Creator (2023) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11858890/

The Night House (2020) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9731534/

The Empty Man (2020) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5867314/

Possessor (2020) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5918982/

Booksmart (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1489887/

Volition (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6385952/

Welcome the Stranger (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5716280/

Time Trap (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4815122/

Wind River (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5362988/

A Dark Song (2016) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4805316/

I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4303340/

Midnight Special (2016) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2649554/

The Devil's Candy (2015) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4935372/

Mr. Holmes (2015) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3168230/

The Witch (2015) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4263482/

A Most Wanted Man (2014) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1972571/

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340800/

Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1465522/

Pandorum (2009) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1188729/

The Fall (2006) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460791/

In a Savage Land (1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151047/

Office Space (1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/

The Double Life of Véronique (1991) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101765/

Don't have Netflix so not sure what's available there, and several might not be wife-friendly. Also I enjoy weird, so YMMV.
I saw this as well in my youtube recommendations and this post made me wonder how many people have a similar recommendation feed.

I watch YouTube for my interests/hobbies, so this does not reflect a "normal" profile (I think). My feed is full of cooking, paintings restoration, coding, action movies, history of the middle ages in western Europe, hoof trimming (I saw a real cow close twice in my life) etc.

I was always wondering if there are people wil a similar feed, but never found research on that.
I wish I had kids in order to see them laugh when they could see their drawings come to life.

One point of critique: Simple, Transparent Pricing -> Currency is tokens. Transparent would be: Currency is animations". Even if 1 token == 1 animation, it gives the feeling as if this would be changed in the future, like 2 tokens == 1 super-animation, which breaks the "simple and transparent".
A common misconception. Autistic people have emotions and empathy- perhaps more than other people. They just keep it inside.
Also no Seinfeld is not funny.
I am talking from a founder's perspective. I am building a new dev tool and trying to seek channels where I can show case it to engineers to have them try it.
Is this phobia angle the new talking point? "If you fear our tool for a hefty subscription price while we are logging all your data, you are inept?"

My experience is exactly the opposite: Inept power users jump on the latest bandwagon to camouflage their incompetence. And like true power users they evangelize their latest toy whenever they can.
In that case it should be easy to prefill the config file if it doesn't already exist.
Show HN: Tttui – A Terminal UI for Toggl Track
I created a simple terminal interface for Toggl Track time tracking. While I love Toggl Track, I wanted a faster way to start/stop time entries directly from the terminal, with search/selection of projects/clients.

Key features:
- Quick time entry management from the command line
- Start/stop time tracking without leaving your terminal
- Clean, minimal interface
To what end?

I can't think of an Apple product that needs low power Wifi and/or Bluetooth, and also operates at such a low price-point that there's not budget to put something bigger on the BoM.
VW Data Leak Exposed 800k EV Owners' Movements
Thank $DEITY we don't have to care about IE compatibility any more.
If you are a developer, I believe this will help you
HDMI does provide power, but this is not how Chromecast (or similar) devices have ever been powered.

It supplies 5v at up to 50mA from a sink device like a TV.

That's only a quarter of a Watt, which is perhaps enough for something like an EDID ROM, or maybe a switch or perhaps an extender. It is not enough power to run a Chromecast.

HDMI 2.1b Amendment 1 [0] can supply up to 300mA at 5v, but that specification is only a year or so old. It requires a special cable.
And 1.5 Watts maximum isn't enough to run a Chromecast, either. (The intent is to be able to use it to run a somewhat thirstier extender than the earlier specifications would permit.)

0: https://www.hdmi.org/spec21sub/cablepower
There's some thick bindings to libtls that coincidentally happen to be written by the author of the article. There's also some OpenSSL bindings in Dmitry Kazakov's Simple Components and some in Ada Web Server by AdaCore, although they're pretty minimal.

I think most applications of Ada are in embedded systems where you don't often want anything not in the standard library.
Reading is indeed the main thing i would like to learn, For my master thesis i had dome some GPU programming (8 years ago) and then it was super useful to read the assembly to reduce the amount of steps and to understand the 'execution model'.
So this allows you to make sure your 'optimization' actually optimized anything.
Esp32-c3 super mini is less than $2 with free shipping from AliExpress. The usb-c cable I use to power it is more expensive. I get a serious cognitive dissonance when I think about it too much.
We tend to be pushed towards immigration because of a lack of safety, of growth opportunities, and no hope that things will get any better.

With that in mind, if Latin America had safety, I suspect at least half of the immigrants wouldn't leave, especially the ones who are able to hold a middle class job.

Most of us would live in a lower standard of life if it allowed to stay close to friends and family. But not being able to walk down the street bears a heavy weight on our anxieties.
> the EU just watched

The EU paid its "protection tax" by implicitly or explicitly endorsing any US actions. It's what always gave legitimacy to any US military action, what gave them the sheen of righteousness. The EU didn't "just watch", they did what they were expected to do.

Going forward, if Trump's anti-NATO agenda materializes, the US will have to find a different source of legitimacy for their actions or be painted as just an aggressor on the world stage.
Bluntly speaking, I think it is going to be the journey that matters; to work with mathematics is to work on yourself and a way to explore your creativity.
> Read every line of your own PRs before you submit them

I do. Everyone should. I’m also a fan of small focused PRs.

> If you worked with me it would be worth doing mandatory PRs.

Given the number of PRs I’ve merged and the number of mistakes that reviewers have caught, I think it’s very unlikely that you’d catch those things at a frequency high enough to justify the cost.

I’m not doubting that you can find those things or that you have found them. But again I have merged thousands of PRs with hundreds of reviewers across numerous companies in multiple languages and I have never had a reviewer catch a major bug.

That’s a large enough sample size with no effect at all, that I’m going to need hard evidence to make me believe that people are finding these things at a high enough rate to justify the cost.
No. Just no.

This is the exact thought process that leads to unnecessary abstraction. This is the attitude that the article is criticizing.

A good rule of thumb is never abstract unless you genuinely have done the same thing twice already.

i.e. only write an abstraction after you've written the boring, simple, concrete, implementation twice and are about to write it a third time.
I'd love all participants in this thread to provide their countries.

As a Belgian (EU), I love how I can pay them just by sending them money, without all these weird intermediate companies stealing your personal details and sometimes even your money.

To answer some contras:

In my experience, the process takes about 10 seconds before the payment confirmation appears in the destination bank. Outside business hours and for some bank combinations, the actual money might be in a reservation/underway/unspendable state until the next business day starts. You can not cancel the transfer once it's gone, so most businesses don't care about that delay.

Typing the IBAN is a tiny bit annoying. I see QR codes appearing, containing bic+iban+amount+message to autofill. You pay by scanning the QR code and pressing OK.

AFAIK bic+iban+amount+message is all you need to pay from anywhere in the world. The BIC can be derived from the IBAN if you have the right and up to date database, but outside the EU it is smart to know it, just to be sure.

Sometimes, reading HN, I wonder if I should write a loooong blog post about how Belgium does its money transfers(iban) and buys bread (Bancontact). I suspect most of the EU will answer: duh, boring! Meanwhile, the average USAian brain goes poof.
Looks like rubbish, the page says nothing about how it is secure. I’m gonna guess it doesn’t even do half of what Qubes does.
I suspect it depends, when you would write a yaml/json parser you can only change the algorithm up to a point.
After that you will have to start doing some bit fiddling and then being able to see the assembly can be really valuable.
Mubi has some great cinema! Definitely more of the sort of cinema you’d see at a film festival than mainstream.
As a kid my favorite screensaver was the Virex module for After Dark which would show a cool animation of it scanning your files for viruses icon by icon
CHIPS and the Inflation Reduction Act are two of the most underrated domestic policy bills in recent American history. Conservative-driven contrarian politicking aren't doing the country any favors.
I don’t think AGI is going to have any impact on the communities of open mic folk singers of the world.
Just thinking on my feet as to how I separate abstractions from indirections and it seems to me that there's a relatively decent rule of thumb to distinguish them: When layer A of code wraps layer B, then there are a few cases:

1) If A is functionally identical to B, then A is a layer of indirection
2) If A is functionally distinct from B, then A is likely an abstraction
3) If A is functionally distinct from B, but B must be considered when
handling A, then A is a leaky abstraction.

The idea is that we try to identify layers of indirection by the fact that they don't provide any functional "value".
Computers allow us to scale what we analyze in math — and that’s a good thing.

Nobody examines structure of group diagrams because drawing interesting ones by hand is borderline impossible, but takes just a few minutes on a computer. However, they’re a natural way to arrive at algebraic/geometric equivalence. (And indeed, the first time I had an intuition for it.)

To me, you sound like someone lamenting swimming is meaningless because we invented boats.
I was just wondering a bit about this. I read some of your comments here and, as I sometimes do, writing and discarding before submitting my response.

But it just occurred to me... Maybe Netflix should do half-movies next. The movie is designed to be appealing on the menu, to have a good but not too engrossing first 30 minutes, and then start ramping down the budget drastically for the remaining of the film, which -it seems- people aren't watching any more. Like don't bother with FX, then just don't bother with actors, then just insert shots of the storyboard or don't even bother with the story at all and just insert stock video, etc. Maybe at the end add a narrated summary of what happened (or didn't happen).
I would argue with your "massive benefit", unqualified. Because while it is true that basic research HAS improved life, much of modern research and technical production has decreased it: less sense of community, microplastics, climate change, destabilization of the working force (AI), less sense of purpose. What's the use of an even longer life if our entire way of life is just a production to add incremental levels of safety, which hardly helps most anyway?

While you might be right, it is VERY far from clear that the latest advanced research will really help us. It could also lead to our annihilation or at least dehumanization, which is really not much better than annihilation.

In fact, due to the immense damage technology has caused, the burden of proof should be on the technologists to reliably demonstrate that new technology is even worth it beyond propping up our broken, global capitalistic system.
How is AI different from using a calculator? AI is just giving a new abstraction layer, in the same way that computers have done before AI. And these non-AI tools have allowed us to produce both deep research and beautiful theories.
I'd be more worried about the problems related to a few companies concentrating all the tools and therefore the power.
I'll have another try in Zig later on and indeed the XMM/MMX and MMY really is confusing, couldn't they just cal it V128, V256 and V512 ...
https://tapestry.apache.org/component-mixins.html
The goal of an abstraction should be to make reasoning about the code easier, generally that means hiding complexity but that shouldn't be the goal.

In my opinion a common issue in programming is premature abstraction without understanding the interactions as a whole.
There's obviously a high level of skill involved...
However, if you want to experince the late 80's, change the playback speed of the landing gear video to 0.75 :D

I'm assuming the guy doesn't have kids or cats, I can't even make a cup of coffee most days without one being in the way!

I used to love to make things when I was younger but I was never this dedicated. I stopped at radio controlled models.
I'm glad my mum bought me a TI99/4A when I was a a kid, so my hobby turned into my career.
Map visualization of runner data for Marathon de Paris 2018